Web-Based Electronic Manuscript Submission and Peer Review

New Space is the only international peer-reviewed journal that is dedicated to the era of new space innovation.

This journal will facilitate new opportunities for collaboration in industry, academia, and government agencies and serve as the main platform in which the many goals identified in new space exploration, commercialization, and new space enterprises, is expedited.

As an independent and all-inclusive journal, New Space features world-class peer-reviewed papers that cover the innovative and expanding applications emerging from the vast amount of new space-based disciplines. To date, many space exploration programs have greatly contributed to important mobile and medical devices, innumerable disruptive innovations, and have encouraged major advances in academia, government, and the private sector – this journal builds upon those initiatives and encourage the growth of rapidly expanding space initiatives and products that will benefit the way we live.

New Space is the opportunity for new applications in space-based technologies and engineering to be discovered, identified, and applied.

SUBMISSION PREPARATION

The review process for all manuscripts will be initiated when authors submit (a) a “.doc” or a “.rtf” or LaTeX file that contains the manuscript, references, tables, and figure legends, and (b) a single high-resolution “.tif” or “.eps” file of each figure. (Note that LaTeX cannot be used for printing if the article is accepted—see detailed note about LaTeX below.) Guidelines for preparing the various components of the contribution, including the preparation of high-resolution digital figure files, are provided below. Incomplete or improperly formatted contributions will be returned to the authors unread.

Manuscripts are judged on the basis of significance, originality, quality and clarity of presentation, and appropriateness of the subject matter. The decision regarding publication is the responsibility of the Editors, based on the recommendations of the Referees, Editorial Board Members, and Guest Editors.

Manuscripts. Manuscripts should be double-spaced and formatted for US Letter (8.5 x 11 inches) page size with 1.5-inch margins on top, bottom, and sides. Times or Times New Roman (12 point) is the preferred font. Manuscript pages should be numbered consecutively.

Manuscripts should be organized as follows: On the first page give the title of the article, the full names and institutional affiliations of all authors, the name (with complete address, phone and fax numbers, and e-mail address) to whom correspondence should be directed, and a running title of no more than 40 characters (including spaces). Supply an Abstract of about 200 words, stating the aims, results, and conclusions drawn from the study, and 3–6 key words or phrases. The Abstract page should be followed by the remainder of the manuscript organized with headings to distinguish the Introduction, Materials and Methods, Results, Discussion, Conclusions and/or Implications, Acknowledgments, References, Tables, Figure Legends, and Figures. Results and Discussion should be separate manuscript sections.

In this portion of the article, authors must disclose any commercial associations that might create a conflict of interest in connection with submitted manuscripts. This statement should include appropriate information for EACH author, thereby representing that competing financial interests of all authors have been appropriately disclosed according to the policy of the Journal. It is important that all conflicts of interest, whether they are actual or potential, be disclosed. This information will remain confidential while the article is being reviewed and will not influence the editorial decision.

If no conflicts exist, the authors must state “No competing financial interests exist.”

It is recommended that authors review the style and clarity of their manuscript with colleagues before submission to ensure its consideration for publication and avoid delay in review and publication processing. Manuscripts may be edited if needed to ensure clear grammatical English usage. The editors welcome suggestions concerning potential reviewers that serve on the Editorial Board of New Space as well as those from the international scientific community.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR(S):

Letters to the Editor(s) are welcomed, but with a 500-word limit and no more than one (1) table OR figure, and with a maximum of four (4) references.

References

References in text should be numerical using superscripted numbers. Do not include brackets or parentheses. Text references must be supplied in sequence for all tables and figures. Double space all references. Number each reference consecutively in the manuscript in order of citation. Number references consecutively (not alphabetically) in the reference section. Abbreviations of journal titles should follow MEDLINE. Accuracy of citation is the responsibility of the authors; remember that inaccurate references are highly frustrating to the reader, the cited author, and indexing services.

If a work is in press, give the journal in which it is to be published along with the words “in press.” Work that has not yet been accepted for publication must be indicated in the article as a personal communication or as unpublished data.

Tables and Illustrations

Tables

Present each table with its caption on a separate page of the manuscript. Use Arabic numerals to number tables. Information given in the text should not be repeated in tables unless advised by the editors. Tables should not be used for data that can be given in the text in one or two sentences. Tables must be numbered in the order cited in the text. The typesetter will determine the final format of manuscript tables.

Figures

Figure legends should be supplied for each illustration. All figure legends should be numbered consecutively, typed double-spaced, and begun with a boldface FIG.1. (2, 3, etc), though the rest of the caption should be in regular type. If there are several images in the figure—a, b, c, etc.—these should be placed in parentheses and put in boldface on their first occurrence. Figures must be numbered in the order cited in the text. Figures will be reproduced in the journal at column (8 cm) or page (16.5 cm) width. Illustration text should be no smaller than 10 point Helvetica at column width.

High-resolution digital files of photographs or line art must be uploaded onto Manuscript Central. Each figure should be submitted as a separate file in “.tif” or “.eps” file format (byte order for Macintosh) at the final print size (8.5 or 16 cm width) and resolution (see below). Figure filenames must include the last name of the first author, figure number, and format extension (e.g., CadyFig1.tif). Figure resolution can be confirmed using Adobe Photoshop by opening the “tif” file, selecting image, image size, and print size. Authors should avoid artificially increasing the image resolution using Adobe Photoshop, which is possible by checking “resample image” when viewing the print size. Resolution and format requirements for images at the print size: line art (bar scales, schematic drawings, etc.) should be no less than 1,200 dpi; photographs no less than 300 dpi (same as ppi in Adobe Photoshop). Black and white (halftone) photographs should be saved as ‘‘grayscale’’ images, and color photographs as “cymk” images.

Figures/images should be presented according to these guidelines:

Do not include any illustrations as part of your text file.

Do not prepare any figures in Word as they are not workable.

Line illustrations must be submitted at 900 DPI.

Halftones and color photos should be submitted at 300 DPI.

Please submit only TIFF, EPS or PDF files.

Color art must be saved as CYMK not RGB or INDEX. If RGB files are submitted, the files will be converted to CYMK, and some slight color variation may occur.

PowerPoint or Excel files are not acceptable file types for uploading to Manuscript Central.

A Note about LaTeX. Though LaTeX files can be submitted to the Journal and sent out for review, we require the final manuscript be in the “.doc” format. Once a manuscript in LaTeX format has been recommended for publication, it will be the author’s responsibility to have that version of the manuscript converted, scanned, or retyped into MS Word as a “.doc” file so that it can be ready for production. Should the article contain complicated equations or formulas, the “.doc” version of the manuscript should be marked to show where they should be inserted and a hard copy list of all equations and formulas forwarded to the Editorial Office.

Permissions

The author must obtain permission whenever it is required in conjunction with the reproduction of copyrighted material such as figures and tables. Written permission must be obtained by the author from the publisher of the journal or book concerned; and, if required by the original publisher, the figure or table legend should indicate the original publication. The publication from which the figure or table is taken must also be listed in the reference section. All permission listings must be obtained prior to typesetting the manuscript; they cannot be entered on proofs. Manuscripts submitted to this journal must not be under consideration elsewhere.

Reprints

Reprints may be ordered by following the special instructions that will accompany page proofs, and should be ordered at the time the corresponding author returns the corrected page proofs to the Publisher. Reprints ordered after an issue is printed will be charged at a substantially higher rate.

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